This girl I loved wore hoodies a lot even in very hot weather because she liked the carrying capacity for the stuff that she tended to schlep around with her. She was possibly the least gangsta person I have ever met other than some of my aunts. My fifty-five-year-old white mother has more street cred than she did. She wore little round glasses and introduced me to LGBT anime.

The thing I really don't understand is that hooded sweatshirts have been around for decades. When did they start being referred to as "hoodies" and when/how did they achieve a bad reputation among certain people?

The thing I really don't understand is that hooded sweatshirts have been around for decades. When did they start being referred to as "hoodies" and when/how did they achieve a bad reputation among certain people?

The text of the 911 call doesn't give the impression that Zimmerman pursued Martin because the latter was wearing a hoodie. He was asked by the 911 dispatcher what Martin was wearing, and Zimmerman described the hoodie and something vague about the shirt and the fact that Martin supposedly had his hands in his waistband. But his suspicion is aroused first by Martin supposedly just walking around the neighborhood, then by Martin staring at him and then by Martin running away. It doesn't sound to me like Martin's wearing a hoodie, by itself, had much to do with the incident, so I don't see how Geraldo's diagnosis of the problem makes much sense to begin with. But, it seems to me, the fact that Zimmerman pursued Martin after the 911 dispatcher told him not to makes the idea that Martin was the one who provoked the confrontation rather unbelievable.

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